Minecraft Castle Build TIPS That No One SHARES

Must know tips for planning and building a castle in minecraft. These are some quick tips and thought process to making and planning large castle builds. Simple survival tips you need to know when building a castle in minecraft survival.

In this minecraft video I will sharing my thought process and many tips for you to use when planning a castle in minecraft. These are some general rules to help you make a more efficient start and make the planning process much easier. Tell be in the comments what you want to see next.

00:00 - Intro
00:31 - Inspiration Tips and Ideas
01:56 - Location and Biome Tips
04:39 - Room Planning Tips
06:42 - Foundation Tips
09:20 - Blocks and Color Tips
11:47 - Height and Scale Tips
13:06 - Over Detailing Tips
15:02 - Last Minute Tips

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Video Info:

► Minecraft 1.17.1 Java Edition
► Texture Pack: BlueNerd Vanilla Basic (available via my Discord)
► Shaders: BSL Shaders

[BlueNerdMC]

Sorry this video took so long guys, it's been a very busy few weeks but i'm back on schedule now with loads of videos in the works =)
Let me know what video you want to see next?

[pgicdtz]

I love how he addressed getting burned out while building. My problem was never not having enough inspiration or over detailing, but was always burning out before I got halfway through a project. Thank you for the advice!

[trishhamilton]

Another tip of advice on “big builds” that I’ve heard is: don’t think of it as a large build. See it as many small builds. A tower, a wall, a house, a fountain, terraforming/adding greenery. While it all goes into the big build, it’s all a bunch of small builds. It really helps with the satisfaction of knowing you’ve accomplished something. And instead of going “ugh! I still got much to do” It’s an “oh look! I did a thing!”

[spambaconeggspamspam]

Small tip. Diameter 9 circles are great for spiral stairs with half slabs. You'll go up 1 block per side and end up with 4 block floors 3 blocks of empty space. if that is too low you just do another circle and it's suddenly 7 high. The middle block on each side always aligns with a block. And remember in a medieval castle, spiral staircases turn clockwise when going up. So that attackers coming from the bottom can't swing their weapons as easily with their right hand.

[prajwalpaedeshi]

Its been 5 to 6 months, I'm building your docks medieval castle in my survival world, till now I've finished only the base of the castle, now starting with the interior, thank you for sharing the castle tutorial💜✊

[havenbastion]

My technique is:
a) find the peaks and clear them - that's prime real estate
b) draw out paths according to where the first buildings are and how people would access them - people always take shortcuts except where environmental features intervene
c) live into it - wander around the area as if you live there and see what changes appear apparent
d) when building new buildings, also consider upgrading or changing older ones, as would happen in real life over time

[outcast]

I would really love to see some tips for building more "evil-ish" and menacing castles and houses.

[Irish_Nick]

Gathering and building. Huge tip there. Been working on one of your multi part medieval castle buildings you uploaded from about a year-ish ago, in survival. Some nights I just like to gather materials. Other nights I like to build. Other nights I like to detail. Helps keep me interested in the castle end goal and not burned out on the process. Love the videos - thanks for all the tips!

[Sonof_DRN]

For me finding the right area for my castle has always been really hard, as I’ve always been aware of what I might want and what castles needed back in medieval days. For example i waned a mountain next to a river leading in to an ocean as I wanted to make a damn lock for ships to go through. Then I also wanted to have the right grass colours, needed there to be mob spawner to be relatively close etc etc etc.

[bbqchipspls]

12:32

I would LOVE a tutorial for this castle😍

[juliebeans]

2 castles, one town and a city....that's what i am working on. There are other projects in the list waiting. I am breaking things up into smaller sections, to make it easier to manage.
I am taking inspiration from the landscape as well as real life and archaeological evidence.

[Clovis_Rose]

I absolutely love how you go through your thought process when doing your builds. It helps so much! Great video as always Blue!

[JayDeeMC]

Lots of great tips here! My castle building has been mostly in creative with my daughter. I've tackled one hilltop fort project in survival, and that's like a castle, I guess. But it was on an SMP, and I didn't have time to build it all out. I did get the manor house done, along with walls, towers, barracks, and a gatehouse, though. And a sewer system. That was one of my favourite builds, to be honest.

[Wumpy]

This video could not have come at a more perfect time... I'm just about to start a castle build in my world!

[TheSquishySnail]

Ahhh! I wish I found this video before I made my village. This would have been so helpful in my snowy tundra village. I'm coming back to this video when I decide to do a new village in the future!

[loraripley]

Perfect video Blue thank you! So far I have built the castle, church and added my own royal mausoleum and graveyard. I just finished the lighthouse and starting on the docks but adjusting to fit my own landscape. I did the interior to the lighthouse myself since there wasn’t a tutorial. I looked back after and thought you would be proud! I’ve learned so much from you! Thank you and can’t wait for the next series.

[enshrowd]

around 10:30 you mention how to add color to desert builds, my thoughts are:

really play around with stained glass! especially with shaders the sunlight filtering through can make sandstone castles look incredible. also in deserts, a lot of cultures focused heavily on dye and rug production, so wool out the wazoo and maybe even a dye farm (pools of multicolored concrete or wool) would be great additions to a castle of a village surrounding one

[suemitch]

Another brilliant video! I can’t imagine doing all this planning in survival! Our server has just relaunched and I need to start again but I’m dreading it.
You’ve given me lots to think about!
PS love the section at around 11mins where filing must be backwards cos the smoke is going down into the chimneys! 🤪

[avinashraut]

Love how the fourth castle you are about to make series on looks great

[slender]

I've stumbled across a few of your videos before which I found really interesting and well explained, so I decided to search your channel up and I instantly subscribed. You're amazing at building and give me lots of inspiration to keep going when I think my build is bad.